I guess we’ll see what happens in October. An updated 4K model to go along with it would make far more sense, but there’s no indication of this at all right now. 1 Requires a TV with an HDMI port, a Wi-Fi network and a compatible mobile device.
1080p was fine a few years ago, but more and more people are moving to 4K televisions, meaning this model is already behind the curve before it even shows up. Simply tap the cast button in a Cast-enabled app and choose a video to play on your TV. I think I hear them playing taps over Chromecast. We still don’t have a solid grasp on what Google’s motivation is with this device and why it would exist at all without a much better ‘premium’ option for consumers to choose. 88 (Official Build) (64-bit) Absolutely will not work on a page with a video on it but if is a page with no videos it gives lots of popups and I cant get rid of them fast enough to navigate to another page before another popup.
So, at launch, the Chromecast HD will have a pretty big ace up the sleeve over the existing model, and it all just feels a bit strange. Last night Google made the Chromecast device available in Canada for the first time, beating competitor Roku to the punch. The paltry 8GB of storage on the original Chromecast w/Google TV means we’ll likely never see it upgraded past Android/Google TV 10 due to the inability to handle those big OS updates via partitions without some sort of hardware upgrade. This means the update can download and install in a compressed form, taking up zero user-facing storage and instead operating on read-only storage partitions instead. Use your voice to stream from compatible apps, mute the volume, rewind and more with Chromecast and Google Home. With that upgrade comes the ability for the OS to update in the background in a seamless A/B fashion.
You see, the new Chromecast HD (or whatever it will be called) will ship with Android/Google TV 12, making it the first to do so.